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New Features Tools WATO

Three What are the Odds? (WATO) improvements

This post introduces three new improvements to the popular What are the Odds? tool: vertical display mode; improved suggested hypotheses; and ALT-drag to copy when in drag and drop mode.

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Tools

My re-tooled DNA Tools page

The list of standalone tools at DNA Painter was becoming rather unwieldy, so I’ve given it a bit of a revamp. The content is the same as it was, but the layout now includes several additions that I hope you’ll find useful.

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Did you know? Tips Tools

Shared cM histograms: did you know? #3

The Shared cM Project tool is a popular interactive tool that allows you to enter an amount of shared DNA and explore relationship possibilities. In this short post I explain how to access more detail in the shared cM histograms.

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Enhancements to the DNA coverage tool

Last night I released an update with several enhancements to the DNA Coverage tool that I’ll list in this short post.

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How to use the new DNA Coverage tool

The coverage estimator is a new tool at DNA Painter that lets you build a tree or import a GEDCOM and then mark the people in that tree who have tested. It then estimates the DNA coverage for the root person based on the testers. In this post I explain how to use it.

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Chromosome Mapping New Features Tools

New: AncestryDNA Chromosome Painter Segments

Earlier in July 2022, AncestryDNA launched a new feature: Chromosome Painter. In this post I’ll introduce a new tool that allows you to extract segment data that you can use to paint population information in your DNA Painter chromosome map.

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Interviews New Features Tools

Introducing the Library of Matches

The Library of Matches is a new tool by Cody Ely with example shared segments for different known matches. This visualization of segments could help you distinguish between different relationship possibilities.

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Chromosome Mapping New Features Tools

It’s Bucketing at DNA Painter…

Bucketing is a new DNA Painter tool that can help you subdivide your segments based on match or segment lists of other relatives.

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New Features Tools

Put your sibling tests to work with the Shared cM Investigator

I’m pleased to release a new tool today called the Shared cM Investigator. Intended for those who have siblings tested, but not the parents of those siblings, the tool uses segments and a simple mathematical equation to estimate how much DNA the parent of those siblings might have shared with the match.

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Chromosome Mapping Tools

Distinct segment generator

As announced last month in the newsletter, the new distinct segment generator tool allows you to amalgamate a set of segments that more than one family member shares with a specific match. The tool will then output just the distinct segments, with the centimorgans (cMs) recalculated.

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